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...Japanese and original Ainu inhabitants, who suffered high death rates from smallpox. The doctors carried out widespread vaccination, employing Western medical

...xtinct in the wild, and may or may not exist in laboratories. One disease, smallpox, has been eradicated, and that took close to 200 years. Eradication of othe Polio, for example, is close to being the second disease, after smallpox, to being eradicated. It is endemic in four countries: Afghanistan, India,

...nsequently had no immunity against. By 1767, epidemics of measles, plague, smallpox, typhus, and venereal diseases had decimated the native population. Out of

...ry, medical treatments were primitive compared to today's standards. The [[smallpox]] [[vaccine]], developed by [[Edward Jenner]], was one of the few vaccines

...ry, medical treatments were primitive compared to today's standards. The [[smallpox]] [[vaccine]], developed by [[Edward Jenner]], was one of the few vaccines

...d. The first explorers and fishermen brought European diseases (especially smallpox) which killed off most of the Indians. * Marble, Allan Everett. ''Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia,

...ref> In 1732, Deborah gave birth to their first son, Francis, who died of smallpox at the age of 4, leading Franklin to be advocate of inoculations. Sarah Fr

...ref> In 1732, Deborah gave birth to their first son, Francis, who died of smallpox at the age of 4, leading Franklin to be advocate of inoculations. Sarah Fr

Perhaps the most frightening would be an outbreak of [[smallpox]], the disease caused by ''[[variola virus|Variola major]]'' is be the firs

<blockquote>In spite of all scientific speculations and experiments regarding smallpox vaccination, Jenner’s discovery remained an erratic blocking medicine, ti

...experts give WHO credit for major successes, such as the eradication of [[smallpox]], near eradication of polio, and substantial progress in controlling child Polio is close to eradication from the planet, but, as with smallpox, the first infectious disease eradicated, the final pockets of disease are

Diseases brought by the Europeans, such as [[smallpox]] and [[measles]], wiped out a large proportion of the indigenous populatio

...nued in later portraits, which not only avoided depicting any trace of the smallpox that the king suffered in 1647 but, by the 1660s, presented him as an Apoll

...some evidence that vaccination cards were utilized to document receipt of smallpox vaccine in the mid-19th century. Rollet’s research<ref>https://www.cairn.

...ent. Most of the Native American tribes were heavily decimated by waves of smallpox. For more than two hundred years, this disease affected all new world popul

...dynasty, 15 epidemic outbreaks occurred in the city of Beijing, including smallpox, "pimple plague," and "vomit blood plague" - the latter two were possibly b

European diseases, such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and malaria, preceded European explorers to western Pe

...centuries. Historians believe these fisherman accidentally brought either smallpox, chicken pox, or the measles to the Native Americans. It caused the 1615 e

...bly catch, and perhaps die from an infectious disease--dysentery, typhoid, smallpox, or malaria. The surgeons were poorly trained (many not even doctors), and

A smallpox epidemic swept through the area in 1862, nearly wiping out the remaining ''